Shoe-form.



E. 0; WRIGHT.

SHOE FORM.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.15,1909.

Patented Dec. 28, 1909.

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SHOE-FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1909'.

Application filed February 15, 1909. Serial No. 477,839.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLERY C. \VRIGHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shoe-Forms, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings is aspecification, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

It is very desirable in use that display forms used by shoemanufacturers shall be as light as possible and also it is desirablefrom the manufacturers standpoint that they shall occupy as little spaceas possible when being shipped in quantity. Accordingly my inventionaims to meet these two requirements by providing a form or tree madeentirely of wood and on the knockdown principle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the preferred embodiment of my inventionin side elevation; Fig. 2, in top plan; and Figs. 8, 4: and 5,perspective views of the knock-down parts.

I have devised a construction which is made entirely of wood, light woodsuch as bass wood, white wood, button wood, or the like, being used, sothat the shoe form is exceedingly light in weight, and hence adds verylittle to the weight of a case of shoes when the shoes are sent outmounted respectively on these shoe forms. The forepart 1 has arelatively large protuberant thick portion 2 and a slender instepsupporting portion 3, being cut away in a curved V-shape at 4 andpreferably hollowed out at 5. A relatively large round hole 6 is boredtransversely through the rearwardly projecting part 2 and a transversehole 7 is bored thereinto longitudinally of the last. A short section 8of round rod corresponding in size to the hole 6, is provided,containing a small transverse hole 9 to receive the end 10 of a slenderpin or small rod 11. A short slender vertical heel part 12- is provided,containing adjacent its lower end a hole 13 of the same size as the hole9 for snugly receiving the end 14 of the small rod 11. The rod 11 fitstightly in the holes 9 and 13 so as to normally hold the parts together.If any special situation requires it they can be glued together.

The forepart and parts 8, 11 and 12 are packed snugly for shipment. Theuser, upon receiving the same simply inserts the part 8 in the hole 6,then forces tightly thereinto the end 10 of the rod 11 and finallypresses the heel-part 12 onto the end 14: of said rod. This completesthe shoe form, which although constructed of exceedingly frail and lightmaterial, is very strong, as all the ordinary strains of a shoe whenbeing thus displayed come lengthwise of the resisting parts. The strainof the heel part 12 on the rod 11 is lengthwise of the latter, and thestrain of said rod 11 is transmitted by means of the hinge section 8lengthwise of the forepart. The parts 11 and 12 are turned up againstthe overhanging part 3 and then the forepart is inserted in the shoe andsaid parts 11 and 12 are turned down into the heel-part until the lowerend of the part 12 strikes against the bottom of the shoe. When in thisposition it will hold the shoe firmly distended. The material of the rod11 is so exceedingly inexpensive that a large extra number of said rodsof different lengths are packed with the shipment by the maker, so thatthe user selects the different lengths to fit the different sizes ofshoes, when he puts the shoe form together.

Having described my invention, what- I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is,

The herein described wooden shoe form, comprising a forepart terminatingsubstantially at the front end of the shank portion of the shoe, havingat its lower rear end a relatively thick protuberance spanning the widthof the last provided with a relatively large hole extending transverselyof said forepart through said protuberance and antersecting hole andadapted to extend loosely In testimony whereof, I have signed throughsaid elongated longitudinal hole name to this specification,v in thepresence of 10 rearwardly into the heel portion of a shoe, twosubscribing Witnesses.

and a short vertical heel-part containin V 7 adjacent its lower end atransverse sinooth ELLERY WVRIGHT Walled hole in its front side snuglyand re- Witnesses:

movablyfitting the rear end of said small M. J. SPALDING,

rod. EDWA zD MAXWELL.

